In today's society, going to a college or university proves to be no easy feat. With the outrageous tuition charges in many public and private universities, to many young adults, it seems downright impossible. Why is it that each year, the United States spends over half of its budget on the military, resigning education, and thus the knowledge and power that comes with it, to a lower standard? With the United States in trillions of dollars of debt, perhaps the government should consider shifting its priorities towards something more important than military spending. Other modernized countries, such as Germany and Denmark, have abandoned tuition, making it free to attend university for all their students. Perhaps we should follow their examples, allowing universal education for all to succeed in this harsh world. Everyone should be allowed to have the opportunity to seek the romanticized and ever sought-after American Dream, and the key to this is through a proper education.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/is-college-tuition-too-high.html
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/16/why-college-costs-are-so-high-and-rising.html
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Feminism
Another topic that I am interested in, feminism has risen in the past few years, becoming a very debated topic in our society. Though I do not take a proactive role in the feminist movement, I agree with its ideals wholeheartedly. Compared to what others might think, feminism is not the domination of men, and the empowerment of women. Rather, feminism strives to create equality between both sexes, in the hopes that women can be on equal standing with men. Often today, women are paid less than their male counterparts, about 78 cents per every dollar a male makes. This difference is simply unfair, especially in contemporary society. We claim to be advocates for social justice and equality, yet we still do not have equality among the most basic of needs. Women are also subject to harsh criticism, often attempting to have to live up to unrealistic beauty standards. They are often slut-shamed, and under the threat of rape, often being held responsible for the threats they receive or the act itself, which is disgusting and illogical. Women live difficult lives, and the time has come that they receive more of an equal standing in our society.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/equal-pay/career
https://www.southernct.edu/sexual-misconduct/facts.html
